The ISI Database on Statelessness and Human Rights is a new user-friendly tool that offers easy access to recommendations on statelessness and the right to a nationality, issued within the UN human rights system. This blog explains how it can help to strengthen knowledge of and engagement with human rights standards.
Lorenzo Piccoli, Jelena Dzankic and Didier Ruedin
Citizenship, Migration and Mobility in a Pandemic (CMMP): A global dataset of COVID-19 restrictions on human movement
Plos One
2021
What are the linkages between citizenship, migration and mobility? This GLOBALCIT webinar will take place on 27 April 2021 at 18.00 – 19.30 CEST.
Introduction and response by Jo Shaw ; comments by Sandra Seubert, Helen Irving, Chulwoo Lee , Caroline Nalule and Rainer Bauböck.
Lorenzo Piccoli officially joined the GLOBALCIT team as a Research Associate in 2018, but he has been a much valued collaborator for five years before that. He made a substantial contribution to a number of earlier GLOBALCIT initiatives, including the Read More …
A recent decision by the Cherokee Nation’s Supreme Court struck down a law that freedmen – descendants of people enslaved by Cherokees in the 18th and 19th centuries – cannot hold elective tribal office. The ruling is the latest development of a long struggle between the Cherokee Nation and the federal government over which has the power to determine who should be considered a tribal citizen, and which culture’s values should be most important in that determination.
It has been widely observed that the population of the UK has turned to jigsaws as a pastime during lockdown. What is perhaps less well known is the extent to which the body of rules governing the right to vote in the UK resembles a jigsaw puzzle. Recent developments have seen this puzzle grow in size and complexity.
What is the role of dual citizenship in engaging diaspora communities in the economic and political development of home countries? The next GLOBALCIT webinar is scheduled for 23 March 2020 at 18.00 – 19.30 CET.
